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Cain and Sheriff Arpaio meet to discuss immigration enforcement

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The GOP's surprise top presidential candidate, Herman Cain, briefly met with Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a political conservative and Republican, on Monday.

Arpaio who is hailed by millions of "fans" as "America's Sheriff," is known for his aggressive position on immigration enforcement and jail management, in spite of the attacks of left-wing political leaders and activists.

According to Arpaio's office, Cain is the fourth candidate to seek his endorsement. Rep. Michele Bachmann  met with the no-nonsense law enforcement executive in September and Texas Governor Rick Perry telephoned Arpaio at his home. While Arpaio and Perry declined to inform the news media about their conversation, many believe Perry's decision to provide the benefit of in-state college tuition to illegal alien students was at least one of the topics discussed.

Many news organizations played "gotcha" with Cain over the weekend when he jokingly told an interviewer he's like to build an electrified fence across the entire U.S.-Mexico border.

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“I’m [certain] he was joking,” Arpaio said. “But it probably means that he’s taking it serious to do something at the border and stop the illegal immigrations.”

Arpaio stated plainly that he is interested in endorsing a presidential candidate who will secure the border first, and then look at illegal immigration.

“We got to get with it and either change the laws or enforce the laws we already have,” he said. “I’m not against a fence, but if you buy a ladder and hop over, I’d like to see people go to jail, not give them a free ride back to Mexico.”

Cain, currently a frontrunner in national polls, is scheduled to spoke at a political event last night in Phoenix. The response to his appearance was so overwhelming that there were more than four times the number of people requesting tickets. The venue was switched to the larger Phoenix Convention Center.

Cain is scheduled to participate in a CNN-sponsored Republican Presidential Debate in Las Vegas Tuesday night. In a Rasmussen Poll released Monday, in a matchup between Cain and President Barack Obama, Cain would win 43% to Obama's 41%.

OBAMA/HOLDER VENDETTA AGAINST ARPAIO?
 
Within weeks of being inaugurated as President of the United States and appointing a new U.S. Attorney General, Barack Obama's minions have been investigating Maricopa County, Arizona's tough-on-crime Sheriff Joe Arpaio. But now Arpaio -- known to many in the U.S. as "America's Sheriff" -- is returning the gesture and officially investigating the foggy "facts" of Obama's birth records.
 
The Obama Administration continues its two-year investigation of Arpaio's law enforcement agency alleging that the sheriff and his deputies are violating the civil rights of illegal aliens. Attorney General Eric Holder has used the Justice Department "to harass a sheriff who dares to enforce laws Holder and Obama should be enforcing," said former police officer Donald Hogue.
 
The Maricopa Sheriff's Department is one of the few law enforcement agencies in the country to participate in the Homeland Security Department's immigration enforcement program that trains local cops to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in capturing illegal aliens, especially criminal aliens.
 
Arpaio garnered national attention for his no-nonsense approach to illegal immigration and the incarceration of criminal aliens in the county jail system.
 
Recently, Sheriff Arpaio created a special task force of five investigators he dubbed 'The Cold Case Posse" whose primary assignment is to probe the authenticity of the recently released Obama birth certificate.
 
Arpaio claims the Obama investigation is not about politics but a response to complaints his office has received from concerned Maricopa County residents.
 
Rachel Alexander, former attorney with the Maricopa County Attorney's Office and a friend of the Law Enforcement Examiner, has often praised Arpaio's crimefighting philosophy and "outside the box" strategies to make Maricopa the safest county in Arizona.
 
Alexander and Arpaio, have been under attack by Democrats and leftist organizations who regularly make questionable complaints regarding the two admitted conservatives. Alexander is the publisher of the Internet political commentary magazine *The Intellectual Conservative.
 
(*Full Disclosure: Jim Kouri is a regular contributor to Ms. Alexander's publication)
Cain met with Sheriff Joe Arpaio to discuss immigration enforcement.
Cain met with Sheriff Joe Arpaio to discuss immigration enforcement.
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